Do you consider any fighters with relatively poor skills and modest physical gifts ATGs. I am really stuggling to think of anyone.......
today he would be a cruiserweight and would dominate the division easily + Marciano has some great skills not just power [yt]9b0yHvw-vW0[/yt]
I can't think of how a great fighter can lack skills or strength and still be a great fighter. He's got to have one or the other.
Especially if they reinstated 15 championship fights. No one could match his endurance and power in the late rounds.
Ok we will say that one who didnt have freaky physical attributes. Personally i think a good boxing brain is the most important attribute.
When he was younger, he had great handspeed (underrated in that department) and footspeed. Very good reflexes too. I'd say De La Hoya was very gifted. As far as his skills go, he always had a good fundamental defense, a sharp jab, and a devestating left hook. He could put his punches together nicely too.
I think that people get confused about the definition of 'skills'. They think that skills only entail things like balance and accuracy and speed, but IMO determination and power-punching and the like are skills just as much, so there's really no such thing as an 'unskilled ATG'.
Larry Holmes looked like my plumber and never was particularly fast, powerful or anything of that nature. He had pretty good skills though.